How Ireland Really Went Bust
From the night when the Irish government guaranteed the debts of Irish banks in September 2008, to November 2010 when heavy hitters from the IMF and the ECB arrived in government buildings , Ireland was on a one-way road to ruin.
Already nominated for Non-Fiction Book Of The Year in the Irish Book Awards (which you can vote for here) 'How Ireland Really Went Bust" sees Matt Cooper describing the tumultuous events of that period and assesses the fall-out and what it means for Ireland's future.
Drilling deep into the human dramas, the business catastrophes, the economic collapse and the unprecedented political upheaval that characterised the time after the bank bailout and led to a game-changing general election, Cooper gets to the heart of what really happened. He investigates the background of the key decisions and reveals why they were taken, and by whom, to throw new light on a period that has changed Ireland forever.
Finally, Cooper sees signs that all is not lost - though we may have sunk to our lowest ebb as an economic entity, he sees glimmers of promise in a new breed of business leaders and political activists who see this as a time when Ireland can change for the better.
"How Ireland Really Went Bust" by Matt Cooper is available now from all good bookstores nationwide.